Concerning Amira Hass’s December 22, 2013 Haaretz & ZNet article – “ IDF Barred Activists from West Bank” – apparently, the IDF, has failed to realize that by barring Israeli activists, who come to protect Palestinian shepherds and farmers, from the West Bank,from entering the West Bank, they are just mobilizing world opinion against their government, further discrediting them. If this continues there will be a Third Intifada as Amira Hass articulated very clearly in a Haaretz article a while ago. This whole situation enrages me and so many other globally so much, including the jingoist, racist, and colonizing mentality in Israel that has deeply disillusioned numerous progressive Israelis like Amira, causing a considerable number of them to emigrate from Israel to Canada, US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.. In a speech by Amira at Hampshire College in the States, an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint, examining her passport, asked her, “Why are you here? You’re a jew!” And she cleverly retorted, “You’re a jew! Why are you here?” I don’t know!” He replied laughing. And she told the audience that fortunately, there are Israeli jews who don’t have the racist, patronizing, colonizing mentality of many Israeli jews, as shown by the IDF soldier’s innocent, even rather child-like, honest behavior
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